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Life as we knew it book freaked me out but i couldnt stop reading. Like where it starts out in the normal present but something happens that makes it change into a weird dystopian world by the end of the book. It is about falling and being in love with yourself as you change and grow. Life as we knew it by susan beth pfeffer october 8, 2009 december 3, 2010 meg as if i wasnt completely freaked out after reading this book, i had to come across this gem of a story while i innocently attempted to check my email yesterday. We make choices that may be the wrong ones, but they give our life purpose. Here you can find handpicked readalike recommendations for more than 4000 contemporary books and 3000 authors.
Life as we knew it by susan beth pfeffer overdrive. See more ideas about life, this is us and this or that questions. Both life as we knew it and book 2, the dead and the gone can be read as stand alone novels as they are companion books different characters, different location and follow the same catastrophic. The tides change, weather gets more violent, and volcanoes begin erupting. I am going to try angelfall, thanks for the recommendation. The fact that something like this could really happen and thats what it will be. Science fiction young adult fiction publication details. This novel is teen boarding school fiction meets murder mystery, which is really the best of both worlds, as far as im concerned. She has chosen a possible but very unlikely event disruption of the moons orbit as the catalyst for the story, providing a little distance for those who need it, but the results of the moons change are all too similar to. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. It is the first book in the last survivors series, followed by the dead and the gone. Handpicked recommendations to other books that have a similar writing style or theme to life as we knew it.
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